Sharefest+Wintec



=Digital Storytelling: Presenter: Malcolm Roberts=

Introduction
Digital Storytelling is based on using multimedia tools to tell stories.As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. The topics that are used in digital storytelling are varied and range from personal tastes to the recounting of scientific discoveries. This interactive workshop will: During the workshop participants will;
 * introduce participants to the concept of Digital Storytelling
 * provide examples of Digital Storytelling
 * relate the use of digital storytelling to teaching practice
 * review examples of digital stories
 * identify the essential elements of Digital Stories
 * evaluate the relevance to teaching/learning/assessment/ePortfolios
 * Participants will then construct their own digital story about their favourite place using Microsoft Moviemaker.

This workshop is just a "taster" constructing a digital story normally a digital story takes two + days to complete.

The intention is that you will construct a digital story about **a favourite place.** If you have not bought any suitable images you will be able to source some easy from the internet or your facebook site.

PowerPoints used during workshop:
Digital Story background and principles

Compiling a digital story using the AutoMovie function in Windows Live Movie Maker. (Please use this during the workshop)

Link to PowerPoint which goes through the technical process of using Windows Live Movie Maker to create a digital story.

Definition of Digital Storytelling:
There are many different definitions of "digital storytelling," but in general, all of them revolve around the idea of combining the longstanding art of telling stories with any of a variety of available multimedia tools, including graphics, audio, video animation, and Web publishing. or **digital story** (//dig·i·tal sto·ry//) A short, first-person video-narrative created by combining recorded voice, still and moving images, and music or other sounds.

or "short multimedia tales told from the heart" 

Digital Story 101

 * At the heart of a digital story is 'the story' not the technology
 * A digital story is NOT A SLIDESHOW with words!
 * A digital story needs to be planned using a storyboard.
 * The origins are from the Digital Storytelling Center in San Fransisco
 * Digital stories contain the seven elements

“Stories move in circles. They don’t move in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories inside stories and stories between stories, and finding your way through them is as easy and as hard as finding your way home. And part of the finding is getting lost. And when you’re lost, you start to look around and listen.”

- Corey Fischer, Albert Greenberg, and Naomi Newman A Travelling Jewish Theatre from Coming from a Great Distance Excerpted from Writing for Your Life by Deena Metzger

Internet Links:
BBC a guide to digital storytelling Center for digital storytelling

Digital Storytelling websites
Coromandel Digital Storytelling BBC Wales Oklahoma digital stories Breaking Barriers eVision storytelling centre Storycentre: digital stories

Royalty Free Music for background music
Incompetech Music Free Music FreePlay Music

=The Digital Storytelling Genre=

An excerpt from the Digital Cookbook

Seven Essential Elements of a digital story: (the core components)
 * 1) Point of View
 * 2) Dramatic Question
 * 3) Emotional Content
 * 4) Gift of your voice
 * 5) Power of a soundtrack
 * 6) Economy
 * 7) Pacing

=__**Kinds of Personal Stories**__= How we love, are inspired by, want to recognize, or find meaning in our relationship to another person or even pet, is deeply important to us.
 * Character Stories**

Honoring and remembering people who have passed is an essential part of the process of grieving. While these stories are often the most difficult and painful to produce, the results are the most powerful.
 * Memorial Stories**

One of the reasons we travel is that the break from the norm of our lives helps to create vivid memories. All of us who travel, or go on serious adventures, know that the experience is usually an invitation to challenge ourselves, to change our perspective about our lives, to reassess.
 * Adventure Stories**

There are accomplishment stories about achieving a goal, like graduating from school, landing a major contract, or being on the winning team in a sporting event. These stories easily fit into the desire-struggle-realization structure of a classic story. They also tend to be documented, so you might find it easy to construct a multimedia story.
 * Accomplishment Stories**

Up until this century, 90% of the world’s population was born, lived, and died without ever leaving a ten-mile radius of their homes. While this is difficult for us to imagine, our sense of place is the basis of many profound stories. (This morning I would like you to have a go at making a digital story about a special place in your life and hopefully you can sources some images from the net)
 * The Story About a Place in My Life**

Life story for many people in professional careers is shaped by their jobs. Author Studs Terkel collected a series of interviews in his book, "Working," that demonstrated that we all have unique ways of perceiving and valuing our jobs.
 * The Story About What I Do**

Sharing the experience of overcoming a great challenge in life, like a health crisis or a great personal obstacle, is the fundamental archetype in human story making. If you can transmit the range of experience from descent, to crisis, to realization, you can always move an audience.
 * Recovery Stories**

Romance and partnership, familial or fraternal love, also naturally lend themselves to the desire-struggle-realization formula. We all want to know how someone met their partner, what it was like when the baby was born, or what our relationship is with our siblings and parents.
 * Love Stories**

The process of learning is a rich field to mine for stories. The detective in us gets great pleasure in illustrating how we uncovered the facts to get at the truth, whether it is in fixing a broken bicycle or developing a new product.
 * Discovery Stories**

Digital stories can be made about our learning achievements: from pre-school to teritiary. Communicating to others what you have learnt and perhaps explaining the pathway you have taken explaining how you got to where you are. Reflection is an important component to learning and digital stories allow people to reflect on their learning and share their achievements with others. Digital stories can be easily uploaded to youtube, moodle, ePortfolios.
 * In the educational context:**


 * Tools for constructing a Digital Story**

Audacity for recording your voice [] Microsoft Movie Maker @http://www.microsoft.com/education/teachers/guides/windows_movie_maker.aspx I-Movie : bundled with all apple computers Corel Video Studio: Any movie making software

Microphone: a quality usb microphone is needed as the clarity of the voice recording is paramount.

media type="youtube" key="3ZZij3NNyVg?fs=1" height="385" width="480" Movie Maker tutorial from youtube.

Interesting Websites:
100 websites for educators: [] Photopeach [] Voicethread []

Browse through the other pages in this wiki :)